Money-bank.



No. 718,908. PATENTED JAN. 20, 1903.

0. BURNS. MONEY BANK.

APPLICATION FILED MB. 24. 1902.

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OYVEN BURNS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

M O N EY BA N K SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,908, dated January 20, 1903.

Application filed February 24, 1902. Serial No. 95,372. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN BURNS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Money-Bank, of which the followingis a specification in its best form now known to me, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

My invention relates to money-banks of the toy savings-bank order now being extensively issued by savings-banks to their depositors for the purpose of inducing the saving of small change; and the object of my invention is to provide such a bank in which paper money as well as coins can be inserted without its being possible to extract said paper money through the inlet for the paper money while the regular door of the bank remains closed.

My invention consists of a bank in which the above object has been, as I believe, for the first time successfully accomplished,which can be easily and cheaply made, easily and efficiently operated, and which is not liable to get out of order in the hands of children or careless or incompetent persons.

It also consists in the details of construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the exterior of a bank having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional detail view through the cylinder, taken in line 2 of Fig. 4:. Fig. 3 is a broken front View of the interior of the bank, showing the cylinder, taken on line 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a broken detail view taken on line 4.- of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one section of the cylinder. Fig. 6 is a detail view ofa rake for removing the money from the cylinder to the interior of the bank.

The exterior of the bank consists, as shown, of a box of ordinaryconstruction, preferably of metal, having front, end, and top walls a, b, and c, the front wall a being closed by a door cl, secured by the lock 6. For convenience a handle f is attached to the top 0. Journaled inside the box at gin the rear wall It and at z in the plate j, secured to the end I) of the box, is the shaft 76. Rigidly secured to this shaft is the coin-cylinder, made up, as shown, of a plurality of plates Z, shaped as shown in Fig. 5. Also rigidly secured to this shaft 70 is the ratchet-wheel m, having aportion of its circumference extending through a slot 11 in the top 0 of the box, so that it can be operated from without by the fingers. Rigidly secured to the top 0 of the box is a rake 0, having its teeth 19 entering and substantially filling the spaces q between the plates Z of the cylinder without preventing its rotation. The parallel plates 1 of the cylinder have recesses or notches 1" cut in their sides of sufficient size to admit of a coin s or a folded paper bill being inserted therein through the slot 6 and carried by the cylinder until they are ejected by coming in contact with the stationary rake-teeth p. The cylinder is prevented from rotating in the wrong direction by the dog a, attached to the plate j, bearing against the ratchet-teeth on the edge of wheel m. The lower quarter of the cylinder adjacent to the end wall Z) is inclosed and guarded by the curved plate 1;, rigidly secured to the end of the box.

In the operation of my invention the operator takes the locked box and rotates the wheel 'm by means of the portion extending through the slot 0?. until the cylinder is in the position shown in Fig. 4:, with one recess 7* of the cylinder opposite the slot t. The operator now inserts the money 3 either in the form of a coin or paper through the slott into the recess r, as shown. He now rotates the cylininder, the dog it clicking over the teeth m until the recess 1'' containing the coin has made a half-revolution to the position shown at the left of Fig. 4, when the coin or paper money comes in contact with the rakep and drops down into the box, the cylinder going on without it. It does not make any difierence how rumpled the bill is it cannot get past the rake without being ejected, and as the teeth 19 fit closely between the disks Z it cannot get caught between them and the teeth 19. It will readily be seen from an inspection of the drawings the guard-plate o and the solid portions of the plates Z make it impossible to extract either coins or paper money by inserting any instrument through the slot 25.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a inoney-bankin combination with the walls of the bank, a cylinder inside the bank and adjacent to one Wall adapted to heretated in one direction only from the outside of the bank, said cylinder having a recess therein into which money can be inserted from the outside of the bank, mechanical means within the bank adapted to remove the money from said recess in the cylinder into the interior chamber of the bank as the cylinder is rotated, and a guard-plate so located that money can never be removed from the interior storage-chamber of the bank through the recess in the cylinder, for the purposes set forth.

2. In a money-bank in combination with the walls of the bank, a cylinder inside the bank and adjacent to one wall adapted to be rotated in one direction only from the outside of the bank, one Wall of the bank being pro vided with a slot adjacent to said cylinder, said cylinder having a recess therein into which money can be inserted through said money-slot, and mechanical means within the bank adapted to force the money out of said recess in the cylinder into the interior storage-chamber of the bank as the cylinder rotates, for-the purposes set forth.

3. In a money-bank in combination with the walls of the bank, a cylinder composed of a series of parallel spaced plates mounted inside the bank adjacent to one wall and adapted to be rotated in one direction only from the outside of the ban k, said cylinder having a recess therein into which money can be insorted from the outside of the bank, and a stationary rake member within the bank having its teeth entering between the plates of said cylinder so as to remove the money from said recess in the cylinder into the interior storage-chamber of the bank as the cylinder rotates.

4. In a money-bank in combination with the walls of the bank, one wall of said bank being provided with a slot, a cylinder composed of a series of parallel spaced plates mounted inside the bank adjacent to said slot and adapted to be rotated in one direction only from the outside of-the bank, said cylinder having a recess therein into which money can be inserted through said money-slot, and a stationary rake member Within the bank having its money can be inserted through said moneyslot, means for rotating said cylinder from the outside of the bank, means for preventing the cylinder rotating in but one direction, a stationary rake member Within the bank having its teeth entering between the plates of said cylinder so as to force the money from said recess into the interior storage-chamber of the bank as the cylinder is rotated and a guard-plate extending from the proximity of said, money-slot part way around said cylinder, said rake and said guard-plate being so placed that said recess in the cylinder is never open into the outer air and into the interior of the bank at the same time.

6. In a money-bank in combination with the walls of the bank, one wall of said bank being provided with a slot, a cylinder composed of a series of parallel spaced plates mounted inside the bank adjacent to said slot, said cylinder having a recess therein into which money can be inserted through said moneyslot, means for rotating said cylinder from the outside of the bank, means for preventing the cylinder rotating in but one direction, a stationary rake member Within the bank having its teeth entering between the plates of said cylinder so as to force the money from said recess in the cylinder into the interior storage-chamber of the bank as the cylinder is rotated, and a guard-plate extending from the proximity of said moneyslot part way around said cylinder, said rake and said guard-plate being so placed that said recess is never open into the outer air and into the interior storage-chamber of the bank at the same time, all of the parts being arranged and disposed substantially as shown and described for the purposes set forth.

OWEN BURNS.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. GHEEVER, R. L. TERRY. 

